Table of Contents

Theorizing Media and Crime
The Construction of Crime News
Media and Moral Panics
Media Constructions of Children
`Evil Monsters′ and `Tragic Victims′
Media Misogyny
Monstrous Women
Crimewatching
Crime and the Surveillance Culture
Stigmatization, Sentimentalization and Sanctification
Concluding Thoughts

About the Author

Yvonne Jewkes is Professor of Criminology at the University of Bath and Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Melbourne. She has been carrying out prison research—much of it ethnography—for over 20 years and has spent the last decade researching and writing about prison architecture and design and their potential to rehabilitate. She has recently held two Economic and Social Research Council grants to study these topics and has worked as a consultant to prison architects and senior prison service personnel around the world. She has published extensively on various aspects of prisons and imprisonment, including (with Ben Crewe and Jamie Bennett) The Handbook on Prisons (2nd ed., 2016, Routledge). With Ben Crewe and Thomas Ugelvik, she is the Founding Editor of the new SAGE journal Incarceration.




 

 

Reviews

"Jewke′s book is thus a triangulated study, which contributes to a usefully interdisciplinary attempt to think through the relationship between media and crime.  While it is written as a textbook, the rich and varied theoretical substance of, and case studies in, the book is suitable for research review purposes.  Media and Crime: A Critical Introduction is a useful introductory text, which contains useful features for class discussion (e.g., study questions, summary, keyword definition)."

—ASIAN CRIMINOLOGY
*J.N. Erni*